Society
The Romance of Junk: Heartbreaker Walter Lure
Oral history on the 70s punk scene with Walter Lure of seminal punk band The Heartbreakers (read more)
drugs
News
Legal Weed: Do Young’uns Now Toke More, or Do More Young’uns Toke?
What impact may legalization of recreational marijuana in Oregon have on teen marijuana use? (read more)
Society
Self-Medication or Self-Anesthesia: It’s No Wonder We Tune Out
Beneficiaries of the system promote their lies; the sane seek solace where they can get it (read more)
News
Career Goals? Hic! Booze and Weed Hold Teens Back
Booze and pot use in teens lessens life success (read more)
News
Psychedelic Drugs: Could they Actually LOWER Crime?
New study suggests psychedelic drugs may reduce criminal behavior (read more)
News
Ctrl+Alt+Psilocibin: How Magic Mushrooms Reset Depressed Brains
Magic mushrooms may ‘reset’ the brains of depressed patients (read more)
News
Do Energy Drinks Lead to Drug Abuse?
Regular energy drink use linked to later drug use among young adults (read more)
News
Can’t Multi-Task? Quit Boozing
Cognitive impairments are an issue for many adult substance users (read more)
Features
Woman of Substances (Jenny Valentish)
Addiction isn’t gender neutral, and neither is mental health. (read more)
News
Thash Why Ish Called Hash: Recreational Cannabis and Gum Disease
Recreational cannabis, used often, increases risk of gum disease (read more)
News
Take Two of These and Cold Turkey in the Morning: America’s Opiate Crisis
Researchers believe alternative pain management options should be integrated with inpatients, including acupuncture, tai chi and others (read more)
News
Twitchy Disco: The Effects of Serotonin on Motivation
More serotonin = less motivation? It depends on the circumstances (read more)
News
How Music Triggers the Brain’s Own Opioids
McGill scientists show brain’s own opioids involved in musical pleasure (read more)
Society
They Say the Devil’s In the Deep End
When you meet the devil, the only response is to wake and bake (read more)
News
Careful Now! : When Magic Mushrooms Turn BAD
Survey assesses both risky behaviors and positive outcomes of psilocybin use (read more)
News
The Lethal Cocktail of Heart Drugs You Need To Know About
New study links common pair of drugs to increased risk for fatal heart condition (read more)
News
Honey, Quit Harshing My Buzz: Bumblebees Hit the Woozy Gravy
When Bees Are Buzzed, Their Behavior Changes (read more)
Society
A Decade of ‘Delics: Shroom, Ten Years On
Ten years later, the cultural history of the magic mushroom still gathers fans and furore (read more)
News
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: Cannabis and Vision Improvement
Researchers find new role for cannabinoids in vision (read more)
Society
Drugs: The Only Issue In Which Ignorance is a Virtue
Maybe our ‘war on drugs’ should be reframed as a ‘war’ on ignorance (read more)
News
The Predictably Easy Method of Transporting Illegal Drugs
Black, Hispanic drivers stopped most often, white drivers most likely to have contraband (read more)
Art
Tracing Mescaline Lines (Eric Yanez / Dubeejunk)
A nod to European fin de siecle visuals, and another to 1960s psychedelia inform Dubeejunk’s striking graphics. Profile (read more)
News
Tripped into the Door? Psychedelic Drugs May Reduce Domestic Violence
Study finds psychedelic drugs may reduce domestic violence (read more)
News
Weed or Wine – What’s Your Poison?
No easy answers in UW study of legal marijuana’s impact on alcohol use (read more)
News
A more chaotic brain state: New Data on How LSD Works
LSD changes consciousness by reorganizing human brain networks (read more)
News
Brain Strain: What You Don’t Want to Know (But Need To) About Cannabis
Study shows white matter damage caused by ‘skunk-like’ cannabis (read more)
News
THC, Or Not THC? How Danes Grow Stronger Cannabis
The concentration of the euphoriant THC in cannabis has tripled in the space of 20 years (read more)
News
Favourite Children and Drug Abuse
It’s not just how you treat them differently, but how your kids perceive i (read more)
News
Weed-Smoking Lessens Wife-Beating
634 couples found that the more often they smoked marijuana, the less likely they were to engage in domestic violence (read more)
Society
The Drug Dealers and Their Money Men
Legal marijuana dispensaries can’t deposit their money, despite the fact that American banks have conspired with violent drug cartels for years. (read more)